The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W.
• 署名单位: Duke University; Brown University; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/675228
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 507-561
• 关键词: personal wealth; BUSINESS; minority; entrepreneurship; DISCRIMINATION; DYNAMICS; families

摘要

In the 1980s, many US cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with the black-white gap falling 3 percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less clear as it depends on assumptions about the continuation of preexisting trends. The black gains were concentrated in industries heavily affected by set-asides, and they mostly benefited the better educated.